On persistence…

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence."

~ Buddha

“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.” 

~ Tal Ben-Shahar

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”

~ Marcus Aurelius

How do you learn how to swim? You get in the water. 

The first lesson is that you need to push yourself to do the thing that scares you. 

 Do not see failures as the end of the road, or as confirmation of the self-limiting, critical beliefs you’ve internalized throughout your life.

Rather, they see failures (frustrating as they may be) as opportunities: for gaining knowledge and skills, for trying new methods, for altering course and achieving different goals than you might have set out to.

“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”

~ Bruce Lee